Hi everyone
As you all know we don’t promote any online products that offer a “miracle or instant cure from panic and anxiety” and then charge you money to find out what it is.
What we HAVE been recommending for a long time now is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) because it is clinically proven to be the most effective treatment for a wide range of anxiety and mood disorders and we get a lot of good reports about CBT from members.
Unfortunately there just aren’t enough CBT therapists to go around so there are long waiting lists. I was put on the waiting list by my GP in June 2011, when I was struggling a bit and had never heard back a year later (which was too late by then) !
Recently we were given the opportunity to test out an online professional CBT program called CBT4PANIC.
All of us who tried the program agreed that it is an excellent program, professional, ethical, very user-friendly, easy to understand, and the support is extremely friendly and helpful.
The main program is divided into 4 ‘Steps’
1. KNOWLEDGE - This will give you a thorough understanding of what is happening to you
2. SKILLS - You learn cognitive and behavioural skills to help you deal with anxiety and panic
3. PRACTICE - You put your knowledge and skills into practice through carefully planned ‘Behavioural Experiments’
4. RECOVERY - You learn how to stay recovered (the 4 extra books described below are very useful here)
There are 4 additional eBooks
• An easy-to-read version of the main 4 books
• A book of actual online dialogues between a therapist and a lady undergoing CBT
• A book on overcoming obsessional and frightening thoughts
• A great book on Mindfulness - makes it very easy to understand.
So, you get 8 eBooks, 56 Videos (these are really great - its SO much easier to understand when someone is taking you through it - these are short videos from 5 to 10 minutes in length) Audios, email support and you get the whole program on a DVD ROM which means you don’t have to rely on the internet to access everything. And to top it off you get a really terrific 64 page pocket sized booklet which is great to carry about in case of emergencies.
The program has the added advantage that one of the Therapists who devised the program (Robin Hall) had severe panic disorder with agoraphobia so he brings a lot to CBT that other therapists may not.
You can find out more about how it all works at the CBT4PANIC website but what we personally all liked was the great mix of extremely effective techniques all explained in a very friendly and often humorous way (there are lots of cartoons throughout the books). Most of us often avoid even reading about anxiety in case we are triggered - but this program cleverly gets around that. Robin knows about panic from both sides - as an ex sufferer and as a Therapist - and he really just knows exactly what to say and how to keep you motivated.
Here at NMP we believe that while support is essential it is also important to have a plan of action that can take you forward into recovery and all the evidence points to CBT as being the most effective treatment plan available. Ask your GP to recommend a course of CBT or try out this new online program.
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